[W]hen we launch in a territory the Bittorrent traffic drops as the Netflix traffic grows. So I think people do want a great experience and they want access – people are mostly honest. The best way to combat piracy isn’t legislatively or criminally but by giving good options. One of the side effects of growth of content is an expectation to have access to it. You can’t use the internet as a marketing vehicle and then not as a delivery vehicle.
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Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer at Netflix (via laliberty)
Look, someone who gets it.
(via knitmeapony)
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What I download goes down dramatically as my access increases! I downloaded a lot of stuff when I was living in a rural area before Netflix started. Now that Netflix streaming is available, as well as Amazon Prime Instant, I download dramatically less. I live in an even more remote area now where video stores are nearly 30 miles away and Redbox is almost 20. The closest movie theater is a crappy 3 screen that barely shows what I want to see. Even PBS is impossible to get where I live, so most of what I do download is currently airing TV shows. And I know that my access compared to that in other parts of my state, much less the country, is great.
(via dressesandyarn)
So much this. It takes FOREVER for good American shows to air in other countries (and vice versa), and unless you want the internet to spoil all the good bits for you in the months or years before your local stations finally catch up, the natural instinct is to try and find a way, any way, to watch them - plus, it means you can actually participate in global conversations about pop culture as they happen instead of lagging behind, and that’s important, because while such conversations will always be going on, at the point when something has first aired, you potentially have the ability to influence ratings and public perception, or to make the creators realise they’ve done something problematic.
And yeah, with Netflix and the like, there’s still a bit of lag, but not nearly as big a one - and instead of scratching around on awful, ad-strewn sites that throw disgusting porn popups your way every time you open a new tab in search of the one player that sorta usually works right, you can browse through a nice-looking layout and have stuff recommended to you based on your tastes. It’s the difference between scrounging for scraps in a different alley every night, and being a regular at a restaurant where the waitstaff know your name.
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